%0 Journal Article
%T LESBIAN AND GAY BODIES IN QUEER SPACES
%A SHARON CHALMERS
%J Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review
%D 2007
%I 
%X In 2001 I was asked to step out of my comfort zone as an academic to co-curate and research an exhibition about lesbian and gay lives at a regional museum in western Sydney. The exhibition drew on the experiences, geo-cultural images and voices of individual and community members, lives that usually remain invisible to those who live where the pink dollar is actively sought, and where it¡¯s chic and relatively safe to be ¡®gay¡¯. As an academic it opened up opportunities to develop new ways of communicating information and stories in a non-traditional form, one which lent itself to working across several communities and disciplines. The result was a coming together of various communities ¨C lesbian, gay and straight ¨C into unusual but generally positive relationships that instilled many people with a sense of pride and well-being.
%K art exhibition
%K Australia
%K queer
%K community
%K regional museums
%U https://admin.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/GLIP%20Review%20Vol%203%20No%202.pdf